Dr. Octavia Lui, Licensed Psychologist

Life can bring challenges at every stage - whether through stress and uncertainty, major life transitions, relationship difficulties, workplace pressures, or experiences that leave us feeling overwhelmed or stuck. While these experiences can be difficult, they can also create opportunities for greater self-understanding, meaningful change, and personal growth. Dr. Octavia Lui provides a safe, compassionate, and collaborative space to help clients understand what they are experiencing, develop practical strategies, and move toward a more balanced and fulfilling life.

Dr. Lui is a Licensed Psychologist with the College of Health and Care Professionals of BC (CHCPBC), holding a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Adler University and a Master’s in Counselling from the University of Hong Kong. She brings over a decade of clinical and counselling experience across hospital, healthcare, community, educational, and private-practice settings. Her clinical training includes practicum, pre-doctoral internship, and post-doctoral residency experiences at St. Paul’s Hospital and Mount St. Joseph Hospital, where she provided psychological services to healthcare professionals in fast-paced and high-intensity healthcare environments. She has also worked with organizations and institutions including ICBC, WorkSafeBC, WorkBC, Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, Avalon Recovery Society, Columbia College, and LaSalle College. Across these settings, Dr. Lui has supported individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma and complex trauma, ADHD, emotion regulation difficulties, burnout, academic and occupational stress, injury-related and vocational challenges, adjustment difficulties, self-esteem and confidence concerns, and major life transitions. She also provides psychological assessment, including occupational stress injury, ADHD, and psychodiagnostic assessments.

Dr. Lui’s therapeutic approach is integrative, individualized, and grounded in evidence-based practice. She draws primarily from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Person-Centred Therapy (PCT), incorporating Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and mindfulness-based strategies according to each client’s needs and goals. She places strong emphasis on building a safe, respectful, compassionate, and trusting therapeutic relationship, and works collaboratively with clients to strengthen self-understanding, resilience, self-compassion, and confidence while supporting meaningful and sustainable change.

Dr. Lui provides psychological services in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese. She is currently accepting new clients at our Abbotsford location, offering in-person and telehealth psychological assessment and therapy for individuals aged 13 and older. Please note that sessions for adolescents are conducted in-person.